A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas

Written by Erich Kasten on Tuesday April 9, 2024

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The remarkable opening of Siberia and the Russian Arctic to international social science research, starting in the early 1990s, gave rise to the spirit of cooperation, innovative partnerships, and the co-production of knowledge across boundaries and academic cultures. These interactions and the heartfelt relationships, built by years of collaborations, are now suspended or at least highly constrained after February 2022.

This volume’s essays explore various dimensions of the newly fractured North and of the war’s impact that poses dilemmas to field practitioners. In this three-part volume, the first in the “Fractured North” trilogy, scholars with decades-long experience in northern Russia document the breakdown of collegial relationships as state control has intensified. Early career professionals consider the ruinous impacts on their planned research trajectories and the new methods of “distant” anthropology. The volume includes several historical essays about the dilemmas that scholars encountered in the face of past repressive regimes and connection breakdowns, and what we might learn from how they dealt with these challenges.

Pavel Sulyandziga
Prologue: How Our Indigenous North Was Fractured   PDF

List of Contributors  PDF

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, and Gail Fondahl
Introduction: A Fractured North? PDF

– Lives Shattered –

Oleksandr Vasiukov​​​​​​
A Fractured Central-Eastern Europe: The War and the Anthropological Fieldwork  PDF

Asya Karaseva​
Against “Methodological Soloism”: An Account of Vertiginous Ethnography in Kolyma in 2022  PDF

Mark Zdor
The War and the Indigenous Students of St. Petersburg University  PDF

Nicolas J. Parlato
Donbass-Beringia: A Personal Journey Along the East-West Divide  PDF

– Historical Examples of Researchers’ Stances –

Erich Kasten​​​​
Under the Shadow of a Colonial Empire: Indigenous People’s Oppression Through the Lenses of Early Scientific Explorers in the Siberian Northeast  PDF

Sergei Kan​​
Defending Civil Society, Academic Freedom and Scholarly Cooperation: Lev Shternberg in the 1920s  PDF

Julia Lajus​
Early Warning Signs of Isolationism: A Conflict around Soviet-German Studies of the Barents Sea, 1926–1927  PDF

Stephan Dudeck
German Siberian Research under Stalinism: Hans Findeisen and Wolfgang Steinitz  PDF

– Research with Indigenous Communities in Troubled Times –

Hiroki Takakura, Kaori Horiuchi, and Dalaibuyan Bymabajav
Mongolians’ Support for the Buryat Exodus after Mobilization  PDF

Eduard Zdor
Fractured North: Those Who Hold the Line  PDF

Natalia Naumova
Un)linking Across the Border: International Relations, Indigenous Initiatives, and Local Politics in Chukotka  PDF

Svetlana Yamin-Pasternak and Igor Pasternak
A Turn of No Return: Russia’s Terror in Ukraine and Our Lives as Bering Strait Ethnographers  PDF

Abstracts  PDF

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, Gail Fondahl (eds.) 
A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas

2024, Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien
255 pp., 15,5 x 22 cm
ISBN: 978-3-942883-41-2
Euro 28, paperback

A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas

The remarkable opening of Siberia and the Russian Arctic to international social science research, starting in the early 1990s, gave rise to the spirit of cooperation, innovative partnerships, and the co-production of knowledge across boundaries and academic cultures. These interactions and the heartfelt relationships, built by years of collaborations, are now suspended or at least highly constrained after February 2022.

This volume’s essays explore various dimensions of the newly fractured North and of the war’s impact that poses dilemmas to field practitioners. In this three-part volume, the first in the “Fractured North” trilogy, scholars with decades-long experience in northern Russia document the breakdown of collegial relationships as state control has intensified. Early career professionals consider the ruinous impacts on their planned research trajectories and the new methods of “distant” anthropology. The volume includes several historical essays about the dilemmas that scholars encountered in the face of past repressive regimes and connection breakdowns, and what we might learn from how they dealt with these challenges.

Pavel Sulyandziga
Prologue: How Our Indigenous North Was Fractured   PDF

List of Contributors  PDF

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, and Gail Fondahl
Introduction: A Fractured North? PDF

– Lives Shattered –

Oleksandr Vasiukov​​​​​​
A Fractured Central-Eastern Europe: The War and the Anthropological Fieldwork  PDF

Asya Karaseva​
Against “Methodological Soloism”: An Account of Vertiginous Ethnography in Kolyma in 2022  PDF

Mark Zdor
The War and the Indigenous Students of St. Petersburg University  PDF

Nicolas J. Parlato
Donbass-Beringia: A Personal Journey Along the East-West Divide  PDF

– Historical Examples of Researchers’ Stances –

Erich Kasten​​​​
Under the Shadow of a Colonial Empire: Indigenous People’s Oppression Through the Lenses of Early Scientific Explorers in the Siberian Northeast  PDF

Sergei Kan​​
Defending Civil Society, Academic Freedom and Scholarly Cooperation: Lev Shternberg in the 1920s  PDF

Julia Lajus​
Early Warning Signs of Isolationism: A Conflict around Soviet-German Studies of the Barents Sea, 1926–1927  PDF

Stephan Dudeck
German Siberian Research under Stalinism: Hans Findeisen and Wolfgang Steinitz  PDF

– Research with Indigenous Communities in Troubled Times –

Hiroki Takakura, Kaori Horiuchi, and Dalaibuyan Bymabajav
Mongolians’ Support for the Buryat Exodus after Mobilization  PDF

Eduard Zdor
Fractured North: Those Who Hold the Line  PDF

Natalia Naumova
Un)linking Across the Border: International Relations, Indigenous Initiatives, and Local Politics in Chukotka  PDF

Svetlana Yamin-Pasternak and Igor Pasternak
A Turn of No Return: Russia’s Terror in Ukraine and Our Lives as Bering Strait Ethnographers  PDF

Abstracts  PDF

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, Gail Fondahl (eds.) 
A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas

2024, Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien
255 pp., 15,5 x 22 cm
ISBN: 978-3-942883-41-2
Euro 28, paperback

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, Gail Fondahl (eds.)

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, Gail Fondahl (eds.)

Erscheinungsjahr: 2024

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A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, Gail Fondahl (eds.)

The remarkable opening of Siberia and the Russian Arctic to international social science research, starting in the early 1990s, gave rise to the spirit of cooperation, innovative partnerships, and the co-production of knowledge across boundaries and academic cultures. These interactions and the heartfelt relationships, built by years of collaborations, are now suspended or at least highly constrained after February 2022.

This volume’s essays explore various dimensions of the newly fractured North and of the war’s impact that poses dilemmas to field practitioners. In this three-part volume, the first in the “Fractured North” trilogy, scholars with decades-long experience in northern Russia document the breakdown of collegial relationships as state control has intensified. Early career professionals consider the ruinous impacts on their planned research trajectories and the new methods of “distant” anthropology. The volume includes several historical essays about the dilemmas that scholars encountered in the face of past repressive regimes and connection breakdowns, and what we might learn from how they dealt with these challenges.

Pavel Sulyandziga
Prologue: How Our Indigenous North Was Fractured   PDF

List of Contributors  PDF

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, and Gail Fondahl
Introduction: A Fractured North? PDF

– Lives Shattered –

Oleksandr Vasiukov​​​​​​
A Fractured Central-Eastern Europe: The War and the Anthropological Fieldwork  PDF

Asya Karaseva​
Against “Methodological Soloism”: An Account of Vertiginous Ethnography in Kolyma in 2022  PDF

Mark Zdor
The War and the Indigenous Students of St. Petersburg University  PDF

Nicolas J. Parlato
Donbass-Beringia: A Personal Journey Along the East-West Divide  PDF

– Historical Examples of Researchers’ Stances –

Erich Kasten​​​​
Under the Shadow of a Colonial Empire: Indigenous People’s Oppression Through the Lenses of Early Scientific Explorers in the Siberian Northeast  PDF

Sergei Kan​​
Defending Civil Society, Academic Freedom and Scholarly Cooperation: Lev Shternberg in the 1920s  PDF

Julia Lajus​
Early Warning Signs of Isolationism: A Conflict around Soviet-German Studies of the Barents Sea, 1926–1927  PDF

Stephan Dudeck
German Siberian Research under Stalinism: Hans Findeisen and Wolfgang Steinitz  PDF

– Research with Indigenous Communities in Troubled Times –

Hiroki Takakura, Kaori Horiuchi, and Dalaibuyan Bymabajav
Mongolians’ Support for the Buryat Exodus after Mobilization  PDF

Eduard Zdor
Fractured North: Those Who Hold the Line  PDF

Natalia Naumova
Un)linking Across the Border: International Relations, Indigenous Initiatives, and Local Politics in Chukotka  PDF

Svetlana Yamin-Pasternak and Igor Pasternak
A Turn of No Return: Russia’s Terror in Ukraine and Our Lives as Bering Strait Ethnographers  PDF

Abstracts  PDF

Erich Kasten, Igor Krupnik, Gail Fondahl (eds.) 
A Fractured North – Facing Dilemmas

2024, Fürstenberg/Havel: Kulturstiftung Sibirien
255 pp., 15,5 x 22 cm
ISBN: 978-3-942883-41-2
Euro 28, paperback

Kasten, Erich (ed.)

Krupnik, Igor (ed.)

Fondahl, Gail (ed.)

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